I don't really agree with this authors analysis of Austen. Like on Pride and Prejudice, "Elizabeth Bennet wants to marry for love and respect, but in her world marriage is fundamentally about economic security and social alliance." Elizabeth grew up with her parents fairly disastrous marriage (where her Dad doesn't respect her Mom) and inability to think in the future which put the girls in such a bad situation (her father should have saved money up instead of just assuming he'd have a son eventually). She is reacting against that, wanting a husband that will have mutual respect AND the economic security of someone who is responsible. She wouldn't just want to marry someone for love who wasn't able to provide her economic security, just like she doesn't want to marry Darcy she doesn't respect him. This article makes it sound like she is rejecting the social expectations of her society, but only her mom really wants her to marry Mr. Collins and as seen by her own marriage and support of Lydia's marriage she is a pretty bad judge of what's going to make a good life.
Later they say "They also both, mostly, focus on characters who have enough privilege to have choices, but not enough power to escape circumstances. Characters in both aren’t peasants without agency, but they’re also caught in larger systems they can’t opt out of" But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of. But even within Austen you have Emma, who is entirely economically and socially secure and doesn't need to worry about anything and Fanny who lives entirely at the whims of others.
These highly magnetized neutron stars—objects only ~20 km in diameter—have magnetic fields that may reach up to 1015 Gauss, a quadrillion (thousand trillion) times our Sun’s pitiful 1 Gauss. The energy density of just these magnetic fields (via E=mc2) is 10,000x the mass density of lead. Magnetars are a likely source of Fast Radio Bursts and can also emit giant gamma-ray flares—one flare, GRB 200415A, was seen to emit the same amount of energy as our Sun does over 100,000 years, but in only 0.016 s. We don’t really know how these flares form, but if they involve large mass motions, they could also produce gravitational waves, something LIGO and other gravitational wave observatories are watching for. Near a magnetar, “X-ray photons readily split in two or merge. The vacuum itself is polarized, becoming strongly birefringent, like a calcite crystal. Atoms are deformed into long cylinders thinner than the quantum-relativistic de Broglie wavelength of an electron (pdf),” resulting in a breakdown of anything resembling what we think of as chemistry. It’s believed that their magnetic fields decay relatively quickly over about 10,000 years, so magnetars are a transient state. We know of about 30 magnetars so far. Oh, and they may also have volcanoes (sort of).
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early twenties during university and didn't manage to get medicated until 3 years later (The queue was quite long and I ended up getting a prescription from a private doctor in my home country)
I think it became really obvious to me when I would require a ton of discipline to do assignments around making applications, but doing something like configuring linux from scratch was so personally interesting to me I could stay up nights and days without any external stimulation.
I found that medication (Methylphendiate 20mg) have definitely helped me focus, but the direction of what I'm focusing doesn't always yield productive results (hyperfocusing on reddit for example). I've also started worring that what I've really done is created a dependence, where eventually ill have to up the dose as what I'm currently on will make me feel like I did pre meds, and stopping will make me feel worse.
I hope you find a treatment that works for you OP, but I agree with other comments that you might have just discovered you have had ADHD all this time because its not 'onset'.
Ok so maybe nothing to do with A*, but actually a way for GPT-powered models or agents to learn through automated reinforcement learning. Or something.
I wonder if DeepMind is working on something similar also.
If your hunch is right, this could lead to the type of self-improvement that scares people.
This is almost exactly the same as coda.io, which is much more polished, and I highly recommend for small data. Just looking at grist for the first time now it seems like it might not have commenting, which I find very useful sometimes for collaboration. Grist though is open source and seems to have an embeddable version.
Never seen this done to a whole laptop, but it wasn't an uncommon last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD back in the days of spinning platters.
Preferably in a zip lock vacuum bag and left over night.
This is a 17 year old article, but I'm a little skeptical that 10 minutes in the fridge whilst still in the laptop would have made much difference. Probably the forced reboot did just as much.
Regardless of how you slice it... an extended family household has multiple adults. That means the US leads the world in children being raised with only one adult around.
EDIT: Also, to be clear, an extended family household means that mom and dad could still be around, so it says nothing of a household with only either mom or dad (most likely mom, according to the article).
Firefox may not be _as_ fast as Chrome, but it's a fairly negligible difference nowadays. rendering speed hasn't been a limiting factor for a while, and i feel like network latency and poor application optimization has been more the culprit there. you can only squeeze so much blood from the optimizing inefficient JS stone, and no amount of rendering engine optimization will ever fix shitty backend API response times
Firefox fails because there is no actual industry pressure to build a better browser. you simply can't sell a browser alone anymore: the free offerings have been good enough since the early 2000s.
Safari only needs to be good enough for iOS users to not abandon the platform entirely, and the ecosystem wants to push you into native apps anyway (Apple wants their IAP cut).
Chredge is, well, _there_, but basically just a minimum batteries included that maybe funnels some set of users into other Microsoft offerings, but it isn't the core product.
Chrome is, well, Chrome.
Firefox is comfortably supported by Google funding as an antitrust action shield. there's no real pressure for them to try and beat Chrome in market share because they're explicitly paid to be minority market share, and aren't really going to lose that share because they already have all of the "intentionally don't want to use Chrome" market. Mozilla faffs about making also-ran internet services (idk, whatever the heck that VPN offering was, etc.) because they fundamentally can't lose their main revenue stream so long as Google wants to avoid antitrust action, and have no real pressure to offer a competitive product.
I was thinking they were somehow controlling the light so the colour saturation never “peaked” on good cinema grade cameras. That way, it could be colour graded back to normal by turning down the magenta saturation. (I’m no expert, so this is the wrong terminology I bet, but I’ve messed with the “tint” slider in Apple’s Preview.app that does give everything a magenta/purple hue if you crank it up.)
However, this says they’re using an ML colourizer tool to un-magenta the image after it’s been masked? Why not just invest in ML tools that can make a greenscreen mask for you? I actually think that already exists at a pretty advanced level. (Considering it’s already very common on phone cameras and video chat apps, with surprisingly good results)
This seems like a lot of effort to just make the mask layer an “in camera” effect. Maybe there’s a good reason for that?
> The “international Internet was turned off” at one point between Tuesday and Wednesday, as the media regulator Roskomnadzor checked the performance of Russian sites and network-dependent services in the event that the country is disconnected from abroad.
I have two ISPs in my Moscow office, monitoring showed nothing more than a 3 second outage on one (which wasn't in that window), and nothing on the other.
Did anyone see any Russian ISPs dropping peering, or was this some lighter thing (like DNS entries, or ACLs for mobile/residential accounts only)?
Actually, it does but they are shockingly unintuitive and hidden. The best way to change your preference among supported link handlers is to copy a URL, paste it into the notes app, then long press that link and choose “open with” either safari or your preferred app. That will stick until the next time you long press a link in this way.
An iOS developer for JIRA taught me this when I submitted feedback that the JIRA app suddenly stopped intercepting links (probably because I had inadvertently long-pressed to open a link in safari, not knowing I was setting a preference by doing so)
Marry a rich man for a while, divorce and get half. The American dream.
I would suggest to men, and I didn't take my own advice but I would put of looking for a spouse until at least your 30s. Date, sure but you don't even know your own self until at least then.
I read The Road years ago, but I was probably too young to fully understand it; more recently, I read Blood Meridian a few months ago for my book club. Few novels have had me think about them as much (Dostoevsky's Demons and Melville's Moby Dick come to mind). McCarthy was an absolute American treasure.
Rest in peace. His poetic Blood Meridian epilogue really stuck with me:
"In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground. He uses an implement with two handles and he chucks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rock which God has put there. On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones and those who do not search and they move haltingly in the light like mechanisms whose movements are monitored with escapement and pallet so that they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality and they cross in their progress one by one that track of holes that runs to the rim of the visible ground and which seems less the pursuit of some continuance than the verification of a principle, a validation of sequence and causality as if each round and perfect hole owed its existence to the one before it there on that prairie upon which are the bones and the gatherers of bones and those who do not gather. He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again."
Wait a second, who here honestly did not practice on-demand learning at university? You did, didn't you?
You had to because you were studying for a specific exam, which you would fail if you only understood the deeper concepts but not specifics of the questions on that exam.
It's also true that you probably don't understand the concepts as well as you'd like. If you're like most of us, you passed the exams by means of an academic Fosbury Flop. Sort of throwing yourself over the bar in pieces while your center of gravity passes under it.
On the other hand, most of the things I do understand well are things that I've been on-demand learning about. You end up coming back to central concepts because they're central. Knit together enough programs and you will end up thinking about code organization at some point in your career. You will run into a Big-O problem at some point. You will run into distributed systems.
Yeah so I'm not sure what my point is, perhaps I agree in a way that it's a bit of a continuum, but also I think with enough exploration you actually end up finding gold.
> Women are attracted to wealth and status, men are attracted to appearances
I will say this, before a certain point in my life I figured we were purely products of nurture. I tried to change values/motivations that I was biologically programmed with. When you're young you listen to the various voices all around you.
Things didn't really work out until I began to realize that there's a lot of nature in us, and that can't be changed. We have to accept it and move on. I was fighting myself for the longest time and didn't know it. I thought I was trying to change the world, but really I was just refusing to accept myself.
I no longer apologize for what I am, and I no longer try to change my partner. I try to be a kindler, gentler version of myself. More grace for myself, more grace for others.
We are what we are. Life got a lot a easier once I accepted that.
I don't believe there's ever been an official explanation of when Apple stopped using the 'i' prefix for new products, but Apple Watch came out after that date.
My guess - the 'I' prefix was tied to the Digital Hub initiative, where software and devices would tie in via your home computer to share music, home movies, photos, etc.
When it became clear that the cloud would replace having all of that maintained on a home computer for most people, adding 'i' as a prefix ended - with iCloud.
Minor OBS tangent: as of macOS Ventura, OBS is now an extremely good screen recorder for macOS with much less UI jank: previously there were a few issues such as not being able to capture application sound or not showing the mouse, but now everything works well.
Incidentially if this WebRTC support takes off, it may be a great tool for high-quality peer-to-peer desktop streaming.
Neat. I had figured the hour hand had a tiny gearing mechanism in the connection between the two hands. A magnet is a much simpler solution.
An old acquaintance of mine designed and sold an awesome wristwatch that used two ballbearings attached by magnets. [1] Not only was it useful for blind people (it was a much better mechanism than the old watches with an openable face, which could get misaligned by touching) but it was also fun to play with, as you could spin the ball bearings around and they could get caught again by the magnet. The video of the person spinning the hour hand reminded me of that.
If nothing else, I hope folks will run with your first point. Far too many people are scared of arbitration, and it can be a really powerful tool for situations like this. It’s fairly accessible and straightforward, especially for folks in the HN crowd.
One pointer for other folks in the future is to make sure you look into your state’s specific consumer protection law. (Sometimes called UDAP law or deceptive practices act.) Often times, these laws will allow you to recover more than just your out of pocket damages to punish companies that are deceptive.
One other way to “enlarge the pie” in situations like this is to hire an attorney. I know, it sounds like I’m shilling for my peers, but hear me out. This same UDAP consumer protection laws let you recover attorneys’ fees as part of a judgment/win. If you’re not an attorney, you simply can’t seek those.
So let’s say your claim is $2,000. Under those laws, maybe you can “treble” (triple) your damages if you win. So now your best day is $6,000. And the company knows it.
But if that same law says you can get attorneys’ fees too, the company knows that they could be facing a 50k+ judgment at the end (almost entirely comprising attorneys’ fees), and then that often incentivizes earlier, higher settlements. My involvement in cases, and the threat of attorneys’ fees often results in higher settlements than my client would get on their “best day,” and even after paying out my portion. (I typically do these on contingency — I don’t get paid unless you get paid).
Lastly, let’s just say I’ve done an arbitration or two with a home warranty company. They don’t make money by paying out claims!
Strange that Apple introduces classes on MDM mere weeks after they retired their own MDM software. Maybe that software would have gotten more adoption and therefore they wouldn't have felt the need to retire it if they introduced these classes earlier. Now with the lack of any Apple provided solution, I wonder if they push users to a specific third-party to use as part of this training.
Little known fact: They made the AC/DC's original Hell's Bell for the Back in Black tour. Touring with 3,000 kgs of bell in a flight case made for some interesting experiences
This shouldn’t happen in theory in a properly engineered and built system. The switches have arc chutes inside of them already, and the contacts are spring loaded to open and close as fast as possible to minimize. On the motor end, the maximum amount of amperage a motor pulls is called the Locked Rotor Current. You can achieve LRC by stopping a running motor with a screwdriver. But a motor also hits LRC for a brief second every time it starts from a rest state. So a UL rated motor sees maximum amperage all the time in its normal lifecycle.
I don’t see how this could ever be legitimate. Giving out an unlaunched shitcoin and a t shirt in exchange for the biometric data of people who very clearly don’t understand crypto or biometric data (read: random person in a mall, regardless of country). This is pretty clearly taking advantage of people.
My question is, couldn’t you do this fairly without even spending that much money? Say you need 5MM scans to build your database (that you’re going to delete the data from anyway). With shitcoins it’s close to free, but you had to pay a bunch of engineers and marketers. Why not give each person $5 USD converted to their local currency? For $25MM you are actually having a positive impact, don’t get dragged through the mud in articles like this, and it didn’t even cost that much.
The word Boomer echoes loud and clear. Are there actually Jimmy Buffet fans under 50? I'm one year away from being able to live in a retirement community (gasp) and I still think I'm a college freshman, but the contrast is sharp between this article (The New Yorker) and forums such as /r/antiwork on Reddit, or Twitter in general.
I’d recommend Anatomy of Fascism, also by Robert Paxton. Paxton’s work is fastinating and a little scary.
He treats Fascism as a historical movement, not an set of ideas.
It’s scary because it shows that rigorous study of historical Fascism hasn’t really happened. It’s been too colored by the WWII propaganda.
For example, fascism was implemented very differently in different countries.
Pre-Anschluss’s Austrian fascism was very very different from German Nazism.
Mussolini didn’t implement any anti-Semitic legislation until after making an alliance with Hitler (12 years of Fascist rule with no anti-semitism).
Fasicists in Portugal (Salozaro) became increasingly moderate. They split strongly from international Fascism (Mussolini), condemned the name “fascism” while claiming to be a “nationalist third way between capitalism and and socialism.” No real elections. Was a very pro-Allied neutral in WWII. Became a founding member of NATO and stayed in power until the 1960s.
He doesn’t feel obligated to follow the safe “Hitler is bad, Hitler was bad, Hitler was a Fascist, therefore Fascists are bad” syllogism that we find so safe.
He asks hard questions like “how much do Mussolini in 1921, Hitler in 1939, and Hungarian Fascism from 1935 really have in common?”
He really pissed people off when he pointed out that the Vichy Regime in France was an independent, preoccupation movement, and not merely “German occupation.”
This is also playing right into NATO's hands in a way.
But, after reading the authors I mentioned closely, I now realize that this is a war for control/negative-control over natural resources (grain, oil, gas, fertilizers, etc.). Also, this is about geostrategic security (anchoring at the Carpathian mountains and Bessarabia Gap).
Later they say "They also both, mostly, focus on characters who have enough privilege to have choices, but not enough power to escape circumstances. Characters in both aren’t peasants without agency, but they’re also caught in larger systems they can’t opt out of" But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of. But even within Austen you have Emma, who is entirely economically and socially secure and doesn't need to worry about anything and Fanny who lives entirely at the whims of others.